Food container



Nov'. 4? 1924.

P. w. FLElscHER FOOD CONTAINER Filed 0oz.v 18. 192s.

INVENTOR PAUL I4( f2s/CHER ATrORNEYs v Aof Weehawken,

Panarea NWA, v1924.

Null'rro STATES nur. w. FLEIscHER, or wEEHAwxEN, New messy.

noon coNrAIYNEa.

Application led Uctober 18, 1928. Serial No. 869,286.

To all whom z't may concern:

Beit known that L'PAUL W. FLEIsoHEn, a citizen of the United States, and resident in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and use'ful Improvements in Food Containers, of which the following is a specification. e My present invention relates to containers for preserving food in a sanitary condition, and in the articular preferred embodiment illustrated) the improved container is designed for keepin or package, separate yet ready for mixing, a portionof ice-cream or the like together with the proper amount of nuts, flavor, or

'other ingredient such as used for making so-called sundaes; besides, the construction illustrated includes a separate compartmain portions,

ment in which a spoon or the like will be kept ready for use, and protected from dirt, brine, water, etc.

Reference is to be had to the accompanydrawing, in which Fi 1 is a vertical section through said embo iment of my invention, taken on line 1-1 of Fig. A2; Fig. 2 is atop view, with parts broken away; and Fig. 3 isa vertical section without the filling of ice-cream and avor, and showing the cover separated from the body of the containr."

The device illustrated comprises three viz`: ,.first,` a body or main contalner; secondfan interior cupor holder; and third, a` cover adapted to close both of the first-named parts, said cover itself form'- ina recedptacle or hglderfo'r the spoon.

he bo y or main'container is shown as made of pressed pul fibre, or other suitable materiahwith a bottom 10 of circular shape, an upwardly-flaring peripheralwall 1, and an outwardly-exten ing top flange 12. Within this bod placed 4loosely the interior hol er. or cup comprising a'tlat bottom 13 adapted to engage the bottom 10, and an upwardly-Haring perilpheral'wall 14 spaced from the wall 11 of t e body and pre erably provided, at the top,v with an outwardly-bent ian '15,such

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ange being at a level below t at of tle= body flange 12. The cover h a bottom 16 adapted to fit within the body and to engage the upper ed e of the; cup or interior holder, as shown in ig. 1. From the outer edge of the bottom 16, a peripheral wall 17 extends upwardly at anl angle corresponding to that to. within the same unit der,

of the container,

y 1s ada ted to be .has an outwardly-extending fiange 18`corre 00 .Sponding to the flange 12, and said lian e 18 1s provided with vone or more outward tensions or iiaps. '19,-, ,A closing member 20 of waterproof paper or other suitable material is glued or oth flange 18, and said member has iaps 21 extending over the flaps Quand secure'd there# 'The cover thus has a chamber .or .com`

artment in which aspoon 22 may be placed' fore the closing member is put on, the 70 spoon being thus well protected until the purchaser desires to use it.

'The container is used as follows: The cup or interior holder is .placed within the body, about centrally,

ling of ice-cream, 23, is then packed in the annular space around the said interior holwhile the latter is filled with nuts, flavor, or other ingredients, as indicated atA 24; and iinally the cover is as by placing, paraiiin, wax, or other sultable materlal 25 etween said flanges and exerting pressure to force one iiange toward the other. engages the upper edge ofthe interior hol` der .14., it will e seen that the cover forms a closure for the holder and prevents the contents of the holder. from passing over and mixing with the ice in the main container. The container having thus been filled, and

closed water-tight, is placed in any usual v or approved refrigerating substance (generally ice and salt), proper condition until 'it is to be handed to the purchaser. The spoon 22 and the fillings 23 and 24 are protected from contact with the refrigerating substance and -with any other matter with which the con-100 tainermay come in contact. f The purchaser takes `removed as described, vthe purchaser can mi;

erwise secured to the 05 as shown in Fig. 3; a 75 put on, and the flange 18 secured tightly to the flan e 12,

As the bottom 16 ofthe cover snugly 85 cream contained 00 so as to be kept in 05 of the conming mlxed dur- 1 !0 the two fillings 23 and 24 as desired, and by tearingol the closing member 20, the purillustrated.

I claim as my invention:

1. A container of the character described, comprising a body, an inner holder adapted to be set within said body in such a manner as to leave within such body, around the holder, a space for the reception of icccream or the like, said inner holder having its upper edge below that of the body, and a hollow cover, adapted to contain a spoon, and having a'bottom fitted within the body and engaging the upper end of the inner holder.

2. A container of the character described, comprising a body, an inner holder adapted to be set within said body in such a manner as to leave within such body, entirely around the holder, a space for the reception of icecream or the like, said inner holder having its upper edge below that of the body, and a cover litted within the upper portion of said body and snugly engaging the upper end of said inner holder to prevent the passage of the contents of said holder from the holder to said body.

3. A container of the character described, comprisin a body forming a main container having a ottom, an upwardly ilaring peripheral wall, and an outwardly-extending top flange, an Vinner holder adapted to be set within said body on the bottom thereof, and a cover extending within said body and snugly engaging the upper edge o said inner holder, said cover having a downwardly-tapering portion fitted within the upper portion of the said peripheral body wall, and an outwardly-extending flange litted on the top flange of the body; and

means to secure the outwardly `extending flange of said cover to the top ange of said body and to form therebetween a substan tially air tight seal.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specilication.

PAUL W. FLEIsoHER. 

